American Travel Writers in Fez.

Neq Embroidery

Spring, O'Brien, a public relations firm specializing in destination marketing and representing the Moroccan National Tourist Office in the US sent a group of top travel journalists to Fez. Today they toured the Medina and hopefully will write some very positive stories about their experience.

Lead by Nora Brossard from Spring, O'Brien, and with their guide, Si Mohammed, they started the day at Bab Boujeloud and visited Neq Embroidery, arguably the finest embroidery shop in the Medina. After a demonstration of the art of embroidery they continued on to Cafe Clock for a quick coffee and shisha.

The rest of the day was spent wandering the Medina visiting traditional craft shops, a restaurant, weaving and mat making workshops and the vegetable souq at R'Cif.

Publications and magazines they represent include, Global Traveler, Good Housekeeping, Dallas Morning News, Away.com, Brilliant Magazine, Gatehouse Media, IgoUgo.com, Travelocity.com, Business Traveler, Miami Herald, and Get Away with Fran!

We will try and discover what they write about Fez - and then report back. In the meantime here is a seldom seen sight - journalists hitting the shisha at Cafe Clock!

Ah... shisha nirvana

But this IS the way I play my flute...

How come we didn't learn this at university?

Yep... same old shisha, just like Lebanon, or was that Cairo?

POSTSCRIPT
And with the speed of an accomplished blogger, Fran Golden has already posted a story on her blog - Get Away with Fran. Read it here: Fantastic Fez

(Photo Fran Golden - other photos: Sandy McCutcheon)

Tags: Moroccan Morocco Fes, Maghreb news